Eckhard Cordes, Cchaiman and chief executive of the German retailer METRO, set the early morning tone at the leadership and trust panel, urging business leaders to help set the moral agenda, echoing an emerging theme across sessions, that sustainable behavior is good for both companies and society.

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That way, we can calculate the average rent and asking price for an identical set of properties in a metro area , for a direct apples-to-apples comparison.

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Malloy said the state would set up a system taking rail Metro North patrons from Bridgeport to the closest operable station, in South Norwalk, during the shutdown.

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Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy said the state would set up a system to take Metro-North patrons from Bridgeport to the closest operable station, in South Norwalk, during the shutdown.

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In December, Alliance Global said that it would set aside 7 billion pesos for new tourism-related projects outside Metro Manila.

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His idea was recently picked up by Civil Military Operations group of the Armed Forces of the Philippines that is set to distribute 10, 000 bottle bulbs to different parts of Metro Manila's slums.

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Multiply that by millions of customers in a metro area, and a smart grid can produce a data set large enough to monitor power demand in real time and predict probable outages before they occur.

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Among other innovations, it set up Tesco Express, combining convenience stores and petrol retailing, Tesco Metro, the small, urban stores and a small number of much larger stores on the hypermarket model including its flagship Tesco Kensington store.

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The company, fully aware of Windows 8's slow, looming approach to market, has set its sights on that unclaimed slice of market pie, hunkering down into development of a Metro-style Firefox, announced just this past February.

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